What do you like best?

FactoryFour fills a major gap that all manufacturing businesses have: understanding the production floor in real-time. They also give you the one insight that no manufacturer truly knows: the labor cost associated with making a product. With FactoryFour set up on your production floor, you can automatically gather data on all your processes. From this data you can build your own insights to understand labor cost, downtime, technician productivity, etc.

What do you dislike?

FactoryFour is a very focused product, making it a best-in-class for production execution and visibility. You will need other systems to manage your inventory, accounting, etc. however FactoryFour has an integration infrastructure that can integrate seamlessly into these other systems.

Recommendations to others considering the product

If you’re a company with more than 15 operators on the floor, you should seriously be considering a system to start tracking production. FactoryFour is the most advanced and easy to use in my opinion. Tracking production will improve your business, increase your profit, and enhance your customer’s experience.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

For me personally, it’s crucial to understand the cost of making a single product unit. FactoryFour gave me that insight and more. I’ve been able to optimize my production processes and make better business decisions that are backed by data.

Sign in to G2 Crowd to see what your connections have to say about FactoryFour

What do you like best?

We use FactoryFour to intake and place work order into production and then manage the production process. It's very easy to customize the forms to intake work orders, and from there you can actually see a workflow that tells you the steps to production. If there is a process problem it will automatically tell the right people to address it.

What do you dislike?

The solution is very well rounded and there isn't anything in particular that I don't like. You need to make sure to dedicate resources from your team to make sure implementation goes smoothly, as you should for all process software.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We are using FactoryFour to process work orders and manage the production process. Overall, we've seen increased efficiency in production, and a more enhanced customer experience. Customers are submitting orders with less errors, and have more flexibility in the options they have. We receive the orders right into production and can track all of our processes in real-time.

What do you like best?

FactoryFour is a modern software that is built from the ground up to be intuitive to use and for humans to interact with. For work-in-process (WIP) tracking, it's the best thing you can get on the market right now. It's customizable and flexible, enabling you to manage multiple different WIP scenarios. It also integrates with virtually any device for data input. We integrate barcoding and RFID systems with FactoryFour to automate the tracking process.

What do you dislike?

There is nothing that I have seen yet to dislike. FactoryFour is a rapidly growing company, and while there product is good right now, we expect it will continue to improve in the future with new features and integrations. We have engaged FactoryFour with multiple customers of ours because there is no better option for WIP and Process Automation.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Ask to set up a realistic and feasible POC. You should be delighted with any enterprise software purchase.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We offer hardware and software solutions to our clients, primarily involving barcoding and RFID. Work-in-process tracking is something that many businesses need. We have been able to deliver a fit to purpose WIP and Process Automation solution with FactoryFour that usually delivers ROI in less than a quarter with superior reporting and inherent decision support.

What do you like best?

What do you dislike?

Our team cant work fast enough to keep up with demand to further develop the platform to meet our customers needs. FF developers and my team meet almost daily as we work to build these solutions.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Think broadly about what you can accomplish on this platform. We continue to find ways to develop and work toward new market opportunities.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Our unique opportunity is the automation of the supply chain for custom prosthetic and orthotic medical devices. From patient assessment to fabrication and delivery, the solution we developed with Factory Four facilitates the workflow and eliminates nearly all manual processes. We have opened up a new market inside of a market we have served for the last 40 years with 30%+ upside for our organization.

What do you like best?

Factory Four allows manufacturers to define workflows for an individual product or group of products and track the production of that item through the shop floor and shipping.

What do you dislike?

I have not come across anything within the platform that I dislike. It achieves the desired result.

Recommendations to others considering the product

It is evident that Factory Four spent a lot of time perfecting the user experience and it shows with how easy it is to setup and use. The ability to create a workflow, streamline communication with clients and optimize efficiency in one package is a game changer for manufacturers of all sizes and locations. This is a game changer for any manufacturer focused on Industry 4.0 and the Factory of the Future.

What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We gain a better understanding of the bottlenecks within the manufacturing environment and adjust the product workflow accordingly. They also have the ability and desire to seamlessly integrate with other platforms, which is imperative to the success of any factory of the future.

Learning about FactoryFour?

* We monitor all FactoryFour reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. Validated reviews require the user to submit a screenshot of the product containing their user ID, in order to verify a user is an actual user of the product.